12/05/2014

MATT REEVES: Talking Apes 3 & Remaking POTA '68

JoBlo.com posted an interview with director Matt Reeves regarding the Planet of the Apes franchise. At one point he discusses the third Apes film scheduled for 2016 and his thoughts on possibly remaking the 1968 original. "Mark Bomback and I are working on the next story, and I have to say given the trajectory of how [Caesar's] arc has gone from the first movie through Dawn so far, what is so exciting to us is that this is sort of his biggest arc yet. We are going to take him to places that test him in a way that is more painful, and in ways that he has never been tested before. [We will] really test his leadership, and more than that his heart and soul. There are ways in which the experience he had with Koba in the last film, really create a context in this story that is going to be, in a way, his greatest challenge yet. We are very excited about it you know.

"To me," he continues, "the idea is that the 1968 films stands as trajectory in that, what is so exciting is that the world of that film is so different from where things started in Rise, and the way they are in Dawn and now will be in the next film. There is a huge distance to cover between here and there that is all about Caesar and future generations, and how this world has transformed into that world, and the struggle that they'll have to go through and how we create the world that we know from that. I think once you've gone through all of those chapters, you've gotten all the richness of those stories, you could very well find yourself going into that story again, but I think it would be from a new perspective. The idea would never be to remake the '68 film. There might be some of those events from another perspective, and obviously to also see them as events that grew out of everything that we've been watching from this new iteration. They wouldn't be exactly the same either. So if, and when, we ever get there, which I think is an exciting notion, it would definitely not be a remake but it would be sort of a re-telling of those events from a new perspective. And the events themselves would probably be a bit different since they will have grown out of these films." For the rest of the interview, click HERE.